Junior Research Paper

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1 American Icons! Junior Research Paper Books: the heart of the Library! The BHS Library Catalog...We have approximately 22,000 books! Google Books! Google Books is the most AMAZING resource for researchers! Google has scanned more than 30 million books as of January, 2014! HINT: Use Google Books to search for your American Icon and add the words American icon in quotes. How to cite a Book from Google Books: You will see an E-book tab at EasyBib.com once you enter in the book s title or ISBN. Example of Google Books Citation: Burnett, William. American Icons. New York: Scribner & Sons, Google Book Search. Web. 14 April 2014.

2 Databases! Link to the Databases on the Library s Home Page: A Collection of 3,000 Reference ebooks! Search all of our Gale Databases here. From home, the password is The two BEST Gale Databases for reliable information on American icons! A collection of databases to magazine and newspaper articles. Google Hint: Look at the SOURCE of the website. Who WROTE the webpage? Look for an About or More about the Author on the website. Look at the DOMAIN NAME of the website...that will tell you who is hosting the site. For example, which of these websites would you be more likely to trust, based on the domain name alone? Hint: Add the words HISTORY or SYMBOL or REPRESENTS or AMERICAN ICON to your Google search!

3 Cite your Sources! EasyBib! Avoid plagiarism and cite your sources! EasyBib shows you how to cite 59 different types of resources, and you can put in a book s ISBN # to quickly create a citation! Tip: You can sign in at Easybib and SAVE your Citations by using your Google Drive login! From Mrs. Smith s Paper Outline: Introductory Paragraph Evidence Paragraph 1: Definition of your icon [What is it? Describe the actual symbol.] Evidence Paragraph 2: History [How did this person/object become an American icon? Explain how/why it became popular.] Evidence Paragraph 3: Symbolic Value [Answer the following questions in this paragraph: How does the creation of this icon reflect America? What ideas are associated with this icon? How/why do these ideas represent America?] Concluding Paragraph Examples of American Icons Significant and Memorable Products, Images, Slogans, People, and Places of American Culture: Alamo Ali, Muhammad Alka-Seltzer Tablets American Flag Amish Antiperspirant Apple Computers

4 Astaire, Fred AT&T Aunt Jemima Avis Bald Eagle Ball, Lucille Barbie Ben & Jerry s Betty Crocker Bon Ami Scouring Powder Boone, Daniel Bounty Paper Towels Boy Scout Knife The Breck Girl (Breck Shampoo) Burger King Burma-Shave Cadillac California Raisins Calvin Klein Jeans Camel Cigarettes Campbell s Soup Carson, Johnny Cash, Johnny Cell Phone Charles Atlas Dynamic Tension System Charles, Ray Chevrolet Corvette Child, Julia Chiquita Banana Chrysler Plymouth Clairol Hair Color Coca-Cola Colgate Toothpaste Computer Chip Coney Island Couch

5 Cracker Jack Crawford, Joan Crayola Crayons Custer, George Armstrong De Beers Diamonds Dean, James Dollar Bill Dr. Pepper DuPont Nylon Stockings Dylan, Bob Einstein, Albert Elsie the Cow (Borden s Dairy Products) Emergency Room Energizer Bunny (Energizer Batteries) Flea Market Fleischmann s Yeast Ford Model T Ford Mustang Fourth of July Gillette Razors Golden Gate Bridge Got Milk? Grateful Dead Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Co. (A&P) Harley-Davidson Motorcycle Hathaway Shirts Hawaiian Punch Hemingway, Ernest Hendrix, Jimi Hepburn, Audrey Hershey Bar Hollywood IBM Personal Computers Ivory Soap Jell-O Joe Camel

6 Jolly Green Giant (Green Giant Vegetables) Kellogg s Corn Flakes King, Martin Luther, Jr. Knievel, Evel Kodak Camera Las Vegas Levi s 501 Jeans Liberty Bell Life Cereal Lincoln, Abraham Lindbergh, Charles Listerine Log Cabin Lucky Strike Cigarettes Lydia E. Pinkham s Vegetable Compound Lynn, Loretta M&Ms MAD Magazine Marlboro Man (Marlboro Cigarettes) Maxwell House Coffee McDonald s Michelin Man Mickey Mouse Microsoft Windows Operating System Miss Manners Monroe, Marilyn Morton Salt Motel 6 Mount Rushmore Mr. Peanut (Planters Peanuts) Muppets Niagara Falls Nike Noxzema One-Room Schoolhouse Oscar

7 Packard Automobiles Patchwork Quilt Pepsi-Cola Pillsbury Doughboy Polyester Presley, Elvis Prudential Insurance Co. Quaker Oats Cereal RCA Radio Ritz Crackers Ronald McDonald Roosevelt, Eleanor Rosie the Riveter Route 66 Ruth, Babe Saturday Evening Post Scott Tissues Smith Brothers Cough Drops Smokey (the) Bear Spam Statue of Liberty Studebaker Car Superman Taco Bell Chihuahua Texaco Service Stations Tupperware Uncle Sam Uneeda Biscuit Volkswagen Beetle Wal-Mart Washington, George Washington Monument Wayne, John Wendy s Wheaties Mr. Whipple (Charmin Toilet Tissue)

8 Whistler s Mother Winfrey, Oprah Winston Cigarettes Wisk Laundry Detergent Wonder Bread Woodbury s Soap Wright Brothers Wrigley s Spearmint Gum Yahoo!